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Comparison of Conventional PFC Boost Converter and Bridgeless PFC Boost

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 ISSN (Online) 2321 – 2004
IJIREEICE ISSN (Print) 2321 – 5526

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN ELECTRICAL, ELECTRONICS, INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL ENGINEERING
Vol. 4, Issue 5, May 2016

Comparison of Conventional PFC Boost

Converter and Bridgeless PFC Boost Converter
Isarar Ahamad1, Mohammad Asim2, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar3, Faizan Arif Khan4
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, Intergral University, Lucknow, India1, 2, 3, 4

Abstract: The use of electronic equipment has increased in last few years. AC rectification is a very inefficient
process, resulting in waveform distortion of the current which is drawn from the source. This produces a large spectrum
of harmonic signals that may interfere with other equipment. In input rectifier bridge the conventional boost PFC
suffers from the high conduction loss. By using bridgeless boost converter higher efficiency can be achieved. The
voltage sensing, current sensing and EMI noise has issues in this new circuit. In this paper at different voltage level by
changing the duty ratio the affect of efficiency is studied for both conventional and bridgeless boost convertor.

Keywords: Power factor Correction (PFC), Boost Converter, Duty ratio, MATLAB/SIMULINK.

I. INTRODUCTION

Power factor is defined as a measure of how a load draws filtering with large electrolytic capacitors. This process
power from the AC source. Leading or lagging PF causes results in a distorted input current waveform with large
transmission and distribution losses and also the poor harmonic content [6]. As a result, the power factor
utilization of electrical power. A high power factor means becomes very poor around .The reduction of input current
better utilization of electrical power, while a low power harmonics and operation at high power factor (close to
factor represents poor utilization of electrical power [1]. unity) is important requirements for power supplies [7].
Due to leading or lagging power factor the electrical The conventional boost topology is the most widely used
energy is to be transferred back and forth between the load topology for PFC applications. It consists of a front-end
and the source and only a part of this electrical energy is full-bridge diode rectifier followed by the boost converter.
utilized for real work. The presence of nonlinear loads The technique usually employed Page Layout to correct
produce voltage fluctuations, harmonic currents and an power factor of single-phase power supplies consists of a
imbalance in network system which results into low power front-end full-bridge diode rectifier followed by a boost
factor operation of the power system. The basic block in converter, as shown in fig 1. This approach is good for a
many power electronic converters are uncontrolled diode low to medium power range. As the power level increases,
bridge rectifiers with capacitive filter [2]. Due to the the diode bridge becomes an important part of the
nonlinear nature of bridge rectifiers, non-sinusoidal application and it is necessary to deal with the problem of
current is drawn from the utility and harmonics are heat dissipation in limited surface area [8]. The dissipated
injected into the utility lines. The bridge rectifiers power is important from a efficiency point of view.
contribute to high THD, low PF, and low efficiency to the
power system. These harmonic currents cause several
problems such as voltage distortion, heating, noises etc.
which results in reduced efficiency of the power system.
Due to this fact, there is a need for power supplies that
draw current with low harmonic content and also have
power factor close to unity [3]. In this paper, a systematic
comparison of the bridgeless PFC boosts converters and
conventional Boost converters that have received the most
attention [4]. Performance comparison between the
conventional PFC boost rectifier and a representative
member of the bridgeless PFC boost rectifier family is
performed. Loss analysis and experimental efficiency
evaluation for both continuous- conduction mode (CCM)
and discontinuous-conduction mode (DCM)/CCM Fig.1: Conventional PFC Boost Converter
boundary operations are provided for both conventional
and bridgeless PFC Boost converters [5]. III. BRIDGELESS PFC BOOST CONVERTER

II. CONVENTIONAL PFC BOOST The bridgeless configuration topology avoids the need for
CONVERTER the rectifier input bridge yet maintains the classic boost
topology [9]. This is easily done by making use of the
A. The conventional input stage for single phase power intrinsic body diode connected between drain and source
supplies operates by rectifying the ac line voltage and of Power MOS switches.

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Fig.2: Basic Bridgeless PFC Boost Converter

The circuit shown from a functional point of view is Fig.5: FFT Analysis
similar to the common boost converter. In the traditional
topology current flows through two of the bridge diodes in (a) Measured THD, PF and Output Power of the
series [10]. In the bridgeless PFC configuration, current Conventional PFC Boost Converter at 24 Volt
flows through only one diode with the Power MOS
providing the return path. To analyse the circuit operation,
it is necessary to separate it into two sections. The first
section operates as the boost stage and the second section
operates as the return path for the AC input signal [11].

IV. SIMULATION ANALYSIS FOR

CONVENTIONAL PFC BOOST CONVERTER

Fig.6: Power vs. THD Curve

(a) Simulation result of Conventional PFC Boost

Converter:

The model is simulated for 0.05 second. Power Factor is

found 0.9618, THD is 15.80%, Active Power 117 watt and
efficiency is 0.8687.

V. SIMULATION ANALYSIS FOR BRIDGELESS

PFC BOOST CONVERTER
Fig.3: Matlab/Simulink model of Conventional PFC
Boost Converter

A. Result:
The result of Simulink model of basic conventional PFC
Boost Converter has been given below.
15

10

5
Input Current

-5

-10

-15
0 0.005 0.01 0.015 0.02 0.025 0.03 0.035 0.04 0.045 0.05
Time (seconds) Fig.7: Matlab/Simulink model of Bridgeless PFC Boost
Fig.4: Input Current Converter

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Fig.9: Power vs. THD Curve

Simulink result of Bridgeless PFC Boost Converter:

The model is simulated for 0.05 second. Power Factor is
found 0.9656, THD is 13.07%, Active Power 127.3 watt
and efficiency is 0.9454.

VI. CONCLUSION

Both single Phase Bridgeless PFC Boost converter and

conventional PFC Boost converter are modelled and
simulated. The results show that bridgeless PFC Boost
Converter not only improves the power factor in
comparison to conventional PFC Boost converter but it
also seen that as duty ratio changes the efficiency of the
system changes as the losses of the system varies . Losses
include switching losses and conduction losses which
depend upon switching frequency and duty ratio. The
switching loss is based on the turn-on loss due to the
effective capacitance of the MOSFET.

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